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Regency Personalities Series-Tyrone Power

Regency Personalities SeriesIn my attempts to provide us with the details of the Regency, today I continue with one of the many period notables.

Tyrone Power1795-March 17 1841

William Grattan Tyrone Power was born in Kilmacthoma, County Waterford, Ireland. His father was Tyrone Power as well. He is achieved fame was an actor and manager and purchased the land that would later become Madison Square Garden in New York just before he died at sea on the SS President. (The lawyer who had the papers disappeared so the Power family could not claim the property.)

He was well known for acting in Irish themed plays, like King O’Neil, St. Patrick’s Eve, Rory O’More,The White Horse of the Peppers, The Groves of Blarney, Charles O’Malley, His Last Legs, and The Irish Attorney. It is thought that he wanted to use these performances to show that an Irishman was not the stereotype that so many associated such. He married Anne, the daughter of John Gilbert Esq. of the Isle of Wight and they had six children. Many of his descendants went on to notable careers. One is the famous movie star, Tyrone Power.

Power as the Character of Major O’Dogherty in the Drama of St. Patrick’s Eve

Works

Born to Good Luck: or the Irishman’s Fortune. A farce in two acts. Adapted from “False and True”.

How to Pay the Rent; a farce, in one act [and in prose]

St. Patrick’s Eve; or the Order of the Day. A drama in three acts [and in prose]